Re: How Do I Write a New Mode for Metafont?

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From: Timothy Murphy
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 17:07

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tyen@cs.utexas.edu (Anthony Yen) writes:

>I have to add support to MakeTeXPK at our site for a LaserMaster 1200,
>a 1200 dpi laser printer.  There exist modes for the Baby Linotronic
>at 1270 dpi and the Linotronic at 2540 dpi, but I can't locate the
>part of the source tree where modes are defined so I can roll my own.
>Can someone please let me know on this group where in the distribution
>tree of TeX for Unix I should go to?

I think that information on modes is usually taken
from Karl Berry's file modes.mf ,
which I believe has info on your printers.
This info can be included in the plain.base file as follows.
When that file is being created by

inimf plain

and you get back the * prompt you reply

*input modes
*dump


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Timothy Murphy  
e-mail: tim@maths.tcd.ie
tel: +353-1-2842366
s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland

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